AN ACCOUNT OF THE EMPIRE OF MAROCCO, AND THE DISTRICT OF SUSE. Compiled from Miscellaneous Observations Made During a Long Residence in, and Various Journeys Through, these Countries, to Which is Added an Account of Timbuctoo, the Great Emporium of Central Africa
London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer & Co., 1809. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in full early calf leather with blind-stamped borders to covers, gilt-lettered and blind-stamped spine with five raised bands, all edges decorated; xvi, 287, [1] pages. Complete (despite "Vol. 12" on spine) with 11 (2 colored, 5 folding) aquatint plates and 2 folding copper engraved maps. Extensive travel description of the Kingdom of Morocco where Jackson resided for 16 years gathering information about trade and trade routes to Timbuktu and about the city itself. Covers geography, rivers, climate, mountains, culture, economy, zoology (especially snakes), metallurgy, mineralogy, population, Islam and languages, as well as the pandemic of 1799/1800. Bookplate on front pastedown of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Baronet (1761-1827), who from 1820 to 1827 was Governor of Madras. Slight offsetting from plates to text, otherwise quite clean and fresh; minor rubbing to joints. Near Fine. Item #021504
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